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Al-Antaki brothers, were Syrian Sunni Shafi\u2019is born in French-occupied Syrian Antakya who abandoned Sunnism in favour of\u00a0 Shia Islam. Ahmed Amin al-Antaki and his brother Muhammad Mar\u2019i al-Antaki, studied for years at al-Azhar University under many prominent Sunni \u201cscholars\u201d. After returning to Syria from Egypt, their sermons and lectures gained such a popularity that Sheikh al-Antaki was offered a position of a qadi, Islamic judge, in the city of Hijaz by Abdulaziz ibn Saud. After travelling to \u201cSaudi\u201d Arabia and learning about Wahhabi beliefs, he turned down the offer and returned back to Syria where he became the highest religious authority in the city of Halab (Aleppo), being appointed to such high position by Sheikh Saed Areif, who was the head of the Islamic Council at the time.<\/p>\n
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After studying Shafi\u2019ism further, he found many inconsistencies as well as deviant beliefs in the sect (refer to his book \u201cThe way I became Shia\u201d). At the same time, reluctantly he started reading orthodox Islamic books, such as \u201cal-Mur\u0101ja\u02bf\u0101t (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0627\u062c\u0639\u0627\u062a)\u201d known as \u201cThe Right Path\u201d, and \u201cAbu Horayra\u201d by Al-Sayyid \u2018Abd al-Husayn al-Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi al-\u2018Amili, among many finding ridiculousness of religion by Abu Hurayra\u2019s narrations such as that Prophet Musa (as) hit the face of the angel of death, made him and his brother accept Shia Islam. After their conversions, Sheikh Ahmed wrote a book \u201cThe way I became Shia\u201d, where he outlines the exact procedure of how and why he converted. In the 1960\u2019s, Sheikh Mohammed Mora\u2019i al-Antaki also wrote an extensive apologetic book called \u201cWhy I chose the Shia school of thought\u201d.<\/p>\n
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